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Jürgen Osterhammel (born 1952 in Wipperfürth, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German historian.

Osterhammel started his academic career as a research fee student at the London School of Economics in 1976/77 and studied and worked there under Professor Ian Nish. In 1980 he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Kassel (Germany) in Modern History. Two years later he started as a fellow at the German Historical Institute in London. Between 1986 and 1990 he was the Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Freiburg (Germany). He then worked for seven years as the Professor of Modern History at the German Fern Universität Hagen, a distance-learning institution. He has also worked as a Professor of Modern History at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva before taking up the same position in the University of Konstanz (Germany) in 1999. In 2001-2002 he was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2014 he was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

In 2010 Jürgen Osterhammel received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

Winner of the 2012 Gerda Henkel Prize, of the Gerda Henkel Foundation